Nepalese rescuers have found a man and a woman alive ten days after devastating floods hit the country – but 500 still remain trapped in tunnels.
Hundreds of people are stuck inside blocked hydropower project tunnels in the aftermath of last month’s flood.
The unprecedented deluge of ice, rock, mud and debris on the Nepal-Tibet border on Wednesday – blamed on a glacier collapse – has killed at least 1,300 people with 5,000 still missing.
Officials said on Saturday that a Chinese national had been rescued from the tunnels – bringing the total to three people pulled alive from the Trishuli hydropower project.
Two Nepalese
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